Eight of the
arrested Golden Dawn members were present at the site of the
assassination of Pavlos Fyssas. This comes from breaking their phone
privacy, while according to leaking information from police sources,
one of them confessed during questioning on Saturday afternoon that
he was there. Investigations have also shown that at the car of
Georgios Roupakias, were another two or three people. All of them
have been arrested.

27 September, 2013

Everything
goes according to plan. The systemic establishment perfectly
exploited the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by neo-nazis in Greece, shortly
before the re-election of Merkel in Germany.

What the
European part of the global neoliberal dictatorship achieved:

First,
managed to disorientate citizens once again, Greeks and Europeans,
from the new measures in which Merkel insists, behind which are the
big bankers and big capital, not only to complete the neoliberal
experiment in Greece, but also, to expand it across Europe, even in
Germany.

Second, as
Golden Dawn was rising dangerously, pulled back the reins of the
organization which appeared to be running out of control. But as much
as was needed to continue playing the role of the “bloody monster”
in case of a new unexpected rise of the Left, and, to fill the vote
tank of the far Right part of the neoliberal Right, from the most
moderate voters of Golden Dawn, as shown by recent polls which were
organized, as always, by the systemic establishment.

Third,
promoted the most horrible side of the "monster",
threatening even with a military dictatorship. After the calling of
the organization "Community of Special Forces Reserves" for
resignation of the government and people-army collaboration, which
was played on the central news of the mainstream media, justice was
mobilized through an urgent meeting of the Supreme Court, in order
the public to be convinced for the seriousness of the situation.

Then, Golden
Dawn leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, added another threat through its
recent statement: "... whether the country enter into a circle
of destabilization, it will not be Golden Dawn's fault, but a fault
from those who demonize and fight against Golden Dawn with such a
dirty and illegal manner ... ". The "blunder" of
Michaloliakos is that he talked about an impending destabilization of
the country, which means that he accepts that the country is
currently enjoying the stability offered by the systemic
establishment, which he and the Golden Dawn generally, accuse
continuously using a specific rhetoric. Therefore, Michaloliakos
through its own words, proves that Golden Dawn is a tool that the
system uses when is threatened by a "destabilization".

Despite the
humorous comments that flooded twitter, on rumors of a coup d'etat
due to the "calling" of Greek army reservists this
Saturday, the threat is real and the message is clear: either you
will accept our neoliberal dictatorship with the mask of a
pseudo-democracy and what this means (dissolving welfare
state, dissolving labor rights, new cuts in wages and pensions,
massive lay-offs and privatizations), or, you will get a military
one, with the neo-nazis acting uncontrolled among you!

The
mainstream media once again played their role perfectly. While the
neo-nazi "monster" has been grown by the same media through
terror news reports, distorted pictures and videos and plenty of
exaggerations, the "big bosses" ordered them to pull back
the reins of the "monster" they released.

But they
should not overdo it because the neoliberal dictatorship still needs
the "monster." Among the hypocritical news reports -
allegations against Golden Dawn, plenty of pictures and information
of the type "how the Golden Dawn members are trained",
"what they wear", "how they parade" are inserted,
or even, newscasters indirectly questioning whether the killer of
Fyssas was truly a Golden Dawn member. In fact, the latest days
Golden Dawn has been advertised by the mainstream media more than
anything else, although some of its members supported that they have
been excluded by the same media!

Therefore,
the message is clear: either you will accept neoliberal dictatorship,
or, you will get a military one!

25 September, 2013

According
to various sources, the Greek Procecution Unit for Economic Crime
(PUEC) is holding strong evidence about the funding of illegal
activities of the neo-nazist party Golden Dawn from big business
owners and entrepreneurs or even clergymen.

PUEC
has already asked from banks to open accounts to cross-check the
information which holds.

Some
of the entrepreneurs involved are already in prisons, while for
others are pending criminal charges. Also some people above suspicion
are included. The data connect members of the local organizations of
Golden Dawn with businessmen of the night and sports, while an
investigation folder has opened for felonies related with extortion,
threats and death contracts.

The
common examination of evidence from conversations of the Golden Dawn
members confirms the connections with specific entrepreneurs, while
even some bishops appears to be involved.

22 September, 2013

Greece
in a dangerous path. New facts give the picture of paramilitary
organization for GD.

Research
for the connection of the Greek military forces with Golden Dawn:

Investigations
over illegal actions of the Golden Dawn by the authorities are
expected to be expanded to the Armed Forces, but also in their
"surrounding environment". What is expected to come to
light, leading inevitably towards this direction, are continued
revelations from many former executives who left the organization for
various reasons, and who are now prepared to speak. Golden Dawn has
had its own "splits" and "conflicts" throughout
its history, and the result is that there are many who wish to break
the "cycle of silence."

One
of those former executives, spoke for the "Vima" newspaper,
about the training in arms "by soldiers from the Special Forces
that support our structures. Our training is not just what people
know. We take special training even in weapons in areas of Rafina,
Parnitha, Fyli, Porto Germeno, Mani, central Evia and elsewhere. Our
main concern is to hide effectively some weapons, even in clubs of
hooligans or apartments, so that they will not be easily detected by
the police, or, [these weapons] to be connected with us. "

The
former member of the Golden Dawn also supports that many executives
of the organization "are taking advantage of the operational
capabilities gained through training, and converted into gangs of
extortioners who oppress shopkeepers." The penetration of the
Golden Dawn in the Armed Forces is not something surprising. And, we
do not mean the electoral influence, but the connection of the
organization with specific structures of the Armed Forces which could
be used for military training, as described by the "veteran"
Golden Dawn member for the newspaper.

After
these revelations, Greek armed forces are going to investigate the
whole situation in extend.

According to
exclusive information from the website tvxs.gr, the lumpen profile of
the murderer of Pavlos Fyssas is typical for members who are
recruited from the nazist party Golden Dawn. Son of immigrants to
Germany who grew up in Athens, G.Roupakias has been fired two years
ago from a private company as he was accused for fraud.

Subsequently
he joined Golden Dawn together with his wife and began offering paid
services. According to exclusive information of tvxs.gr, from
neighbors and people with whom he was in contact, Roupakias was paid
from the fund of the Golden Dawn to participate in beatings of
migrants, mainly around the area of Nikaia and Piraeus. The
professional style with which he murdered the unlucky Pavlos Fyssas
shows that he had experience in stabbings.

One of the
issues that police is called to investigate, is whether he is
involved in the attacks from Golden Dawn members against Greek
Communist party members in Perama last week. In any case, the fact
that the perpetrators of the attack in Perama were left undisturbed,
seems that emboldened members of the Golden Dawn, who felt that they
can act without consequences. Roupakias had the same impression
during previous attacks in which he participated.

The
raid groups of the Golden Dawn in Nikaia and the targeting of Pavlos
Fyssas:

After
revealing pictures and videos that connect Golden Dawn with the
perpetrator of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, Georgios Roupakias,
beyond doubt, new evidence appear to come to light. According to the
latest reports, the 45 year old murderer had more than one call
before going to the point of murder with more concrete evidence
expected on Monday. At the same time, the "Ethnos"
newspaper publishes an interview of a former member of the Golden
Dawn, which reports, among other things, names and evidence about the
way the raid groups of the Golden Dawn act in Nikaia, while supports
that they had targeted Pavlos Fyssas because he was writting
anti-fascist songs.

The
former member of the Golden Dawn, according to "Ethnos",
states that the murderer of Pavlos Fyssas was second in command in
the group and that the 34-year old had been targeted because of his
anti-fascist action . In the interview published by the newspaper,
said that the raid group of the Golden Dawn in Nikaia operates under
the guidance of George Patelis and under the supervision of the
Golden Dawn MP Ioannis Lagos.

The
ex-member claims that "G.Patelis was telling us that we must get
the OK from Lagos who then was informing the chief. If the chief was
giving the OK, we were out in the streets. Whether to write slogans,
or to attack Pakistanis, Patelis and Lagos had to be informed first".

According
to him, the group raid of Nikaia has the hierarchy, structure and
organization of a paramilitary criminal organization. As he says, the
base-headquarters are the offices [of Golden Dawn], from where they
are given orders for attacks against immigrants and other actions.
Weapons are kept there, which disappear when police is about to make
control.

The
former member of the Golden Dawn also supports that, the controls of
the police are "staged" as a policeman in the police
department of Nikaia supports Golden Dawn and gives information to
the core of the organization, while he undertakes to "clean"
those who are being caught.

According
to the latest information, George Roupakias received more than one
call before going to the point of murder, including a call from the
chief of the local organization of the Golden Dawn. On Monday, there
will be more specific data, after processing of telephone data.
However, the police reportedly already identified the most telephone
numbers.

It
is now clear that the perpetrator was contacted by phone to go at the
place where the 34-year old and his friends were at that moment.
Besides, this has been testified by his wife, which says that her
husband was watching football at home when he received a phone call
and rushed to leave.

11 September, 2013

September 11, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S.-backed
military coup in Chile that ousted democratically-elected Salvador
Allende in 1973 and led to a 17-year repressive dictatorship led by
General Augusto Pinochet. Chile became the first lab-rat of neoliberalism.
Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys advise dictator Pinochet to kill
the state and privatize everything. Chile was occupied by big cartels,
US interests companies, people suffered from poverty and from Pinochet's
cruel regime.

09 September, 2013

Despite the
fact that the stance of people in Greece and Europe seems to change,
rather slowly, against concepts which in the relatively recent past
have been considered almost taboo, such as the concepts of
collectivity and solidarity, the systemic establishment uses all
available means to keep the culture of extreme individualism and
brute economic pragmatism undamaged.

This culture
which spread rapidly over the past two decades in Greece and in the
Western world - perhaps in a different form from country to country
due to local particularities - serves fully the interests of the
economic elites. Extreme individualism and economic pragmatism, were
not just the main components of this peculiar culture, but ended up
to be the basic building blocks of modern rationalism of Western
societies, what one could name as Western neo-rationalism.

It is
characteristic that in Greece of financial crisis, the language of
economic cynicism which propagates to a great extend by the domestic
major media, is being reproduced automatically by the society itself,
although the situation in Greece is a result, in a high degree, of
the economic irresponsibility of a certain privileged class which not
only left unaffected by the crisis, but rather, in many cases gaining
from this situation and is the class which controls these media
mouthpieces. At the top of this privileged class are the bankers and
the business and political class which fully controls Greek
governments until today.

For example,
the broadcaster of the central news program announces, almost with
satisfaction, that tourism has gone up this year in Greece because of
the events in Turkey and Egypt, severing the fact that some people
there suffering, or even lose their lives. The news comes with some
necessary “decorations”, such as statistics on the total number
of visitors, etc., or various phrases-cliché
such as "tourism is the heavy industry of Greece", so that
the mouthpieces to give a false hope for some imminent economic
recovery and to distract public from the new austerity measures that
will come, layoffs and further downgrade of labor rights and the
welfare state.

So, finally,
although the dramatic situation and death of many people in these
countries are often the first news on the same TV channels, the
stereotype being reproduced by the society in the storm of economic
crisis, is the fact that tourism in Greece shows a "promising"
rise, and this is something that happens in everyday conversations,
even by people who have nothing to gain from the rise of tourism in
Greece, but instead, their financial situation is likely to worsen in
the near future.

The language
of economic cynicism takes many forms and literally overwhelms the
mainstream media. Another example is the recent statement by the
Greek finance minister who said directly and bluntly that auctions
for the primary houses must be done (which means that many borrowers
will lose their primary homes), otherwise the banks will collapse,
despite that banks have received so far billions in bailouts
supposedly to survive. Despite that the banks' major shareholders
with their enormous responsibilities have been rescued and the debt
has been transferred from the banks to the Greek and European
taxpayers.

Within a
financial war where everyone is trying to survive, the language of
economic cynicism is exceptionally useful. Another characteristic
example is a letter published recently in a newspaper's website which
belongs to the largest journalistic organization in Greece. The
letter was written on the occasion of the layoffs of about 30
journalists from the organization and declaring a 24-hour strike by
the journalists' union.

At the
beginning of the letter, the author and director of the newspaper
writes the following:

“A lot can
be said about the crisis in the press and media. The blame –
political or otherwise – can be pointed; newspapers, television,
radio and their emergent internet editions can be accused for their
bias and attitude, for ideological distortion and an inability to
detail the real conditions in Greece and the world.

One can argue with the
owners who enjoyed huge profits and didn’t look out for the rainy
days, with the “star journalists” who were seduced by the glory
of the good old days and cannot face reality; with all those who
served and continue to serve without assuming their objective and
subjective responsibilities they have, which always exist in failed
ventures.All of the above though
are not a solution to the problem that the great financial crisis has
caused in the press and media world. The sector of information has
been hit the hardest in the Greek economy.”(http://www.tovima.gr/en/article/?aid=528454)

While
in essence the author admits the enormous responsibilities and the
corruption of the media establishment in Greece, a part of which is
this journalistic organization, requires more or less to forget about
these responsibilities, as he says that they "are not a solution
to the problem". So, in the midst of an economic crisis, ethic
and accountability become a luxury as they "are not a solution"
to the economic collapse.

And the letter ends
- always with the characteristic language of economic cynicism - as
follows:

“There
are no magic solutions, the media will either limit themselves or
they will disappear.

For better or for worse,
without a dramatic cut in expenses they have no luck.The journalists and their
unions are obliged to recognize the circumstances.When the circumstances
have been understood the solutions will be found. Otherwise the
eradication of the media will be inevitable.”

Which
in simple words translated as: "stop strikes and accept layoffs
and drastic reduction of your wages, otherwise you will be all left
without a job".

The
deficit of ethic in the Western neo-rationalism has been replaced by
the brute economic pragmatism. So, for example, societies accept
rationally that the tourism sector goes well, without wondering if
some people suffer or die elsewhere, that banks should not in any way
fail because this will bring chaos, or even that the bankers are
greedy due to their nature and therefore it's somehow inappropriate
someone to deal with their own responsibilities, or that some must
necessarily be fired, otherwise the company will close and everyone
will be fired.

Fear
is, therefore, what enforces this logic. With phrases-cliché like
"there are no magic solutions", the language of economic
cynicism prevents societies to imagine and try a different way of
organizing incompatible with the interests of the economic elites,
but compatible with the interests of the majority.

But
the expulsion of ethic from the Western neo-rationalism impose
another kind of fear: anyone who talks about ethic, or "worse"
acts on the basis of some moral principles, is considered
anachronistic and naive, displaced gradually from every social
activity and usually stays in fringe, threatened with an economic and
therefore biological extermination, since ultimately everything is
expressed through the language of economic cynicism.

04 September, 2013

“The
representatives of Greece’s lenders rejected the government
proposal about the three defense industries LARKO, EAS and ELVO.
IMF’s Thomsen and the other kids demanded that the three industries
close immediately without compensationfor the fired
personnel and to be thoroughly restructured on a total new
basis.”

“The
Troikans’ point of view about the present and the future of the
country’s defense industries was clear and brief: it was submitted
to the Greek Finance Ministry via an e-mail!”

01 September, 2013

The
last global economic crisis has brought the Left as well as the
extreme nationalism in the front line. The rise of the Left in Greece
and elsewhere came as an answer to the corrosion of the European
Socialism and its absorption from neoliberalism. Current government
coalition in Greece consisting from the two parties in power for the
last 40 years, the right-wing, now neoliberal, party Nea Dimokratia
and the "Socialist" party PASOK, is the best proof of this
fact. Despite the fact that the rise of the Left and extreme
nationalism creates a new front of intense ideological conflict, this
is not something which prevents the dissolving of the old ideological
lines.

Therefore,
we are now in a period where the old ideological lines are blurring,
and various conflicts cannot prevent this fact. This is something
which has to do mainly with the fail of the Left to construct a new
autonomous language relieved from capitalistic terms, and the full
capitulate of the Right to neoliberalism, leading to the "mashing"
of traditional ideologies and the prevail of a cultural
totalitarianism which spreads in the West and elsewhere.

However,
the brutality and the immediacy with which neoliberalism currently
expands even in the most developed countries of the West, has not
contributed to the emergence of revolutions with the classical form
of the past, but it seems that leads societies in gradually rebuild
the base of some principles and values which were declined heavily
under the highly “economistic” nature of the dominant
socio-political model of the last two decades or more.

Bringing
back the lost concepts

Only
a decade ago, or less, anyone who was speaking about concepts such as
collectivism or solidarity in Greece, would be considered at least
naive and would be treated with cynicism by the established culture
of the extreme individualism. The bubble economy and bank lending
which dominated particularly the early 90s and onwards, as well as
the corresponding life-style, buried such concepts, buying the
majority of people with overdoses of artificial prosperity.

So,
while we are in a phase where the old ideological lines fade, and
seems that there is a cultural totalitarianism which prevails more
and more and has no opponent, the problems created by neoliberalism
and the brutality with which prevails, as takes back this artificial
prosperity, activate some hidden reflexes of societies and bring back
to the surface some concepts, which until a few years ago had ended
up being treated nearly as taboos.

In
earlier times, Greeks had inside their culture such concepts, which
were manifested in their daily life through various practices, such
as the exchange of agricultural products, particularly in the Greek
countryside. Even today, the older who have memories of such
practices, were able to maintain or restore them again, in response
to the economic downturn currently experienced by the majority of
citizens.

Perhaps
this explains, to some extent, the fact that the last five years with
the economic crisis, the attitude of Greeks has changed dramatically
against such alternative forms of social coexistence, beyond the
essential needs created by the crisis. The Greeks can exploit their
tradition and change their lifestyle and social organization, but
this is not something simple, as conditions shaped by the dominant
sociopolitical model, make such a venture to look very hard.

An
unequal fight in the new ideological arena

A
new great ideological conflict appears that begins to emerge. It's
this among alternative forms of social organization and the emerging
anarcho-capitalism. The great ideological chasm between these two
models comes from the fact that alternative forms of social
organization - which can be expressed mainly through cooperative
movements or communities and groups of self-management - have in the
core of their philosophy the key concepts of collectivity and
solidarity, concepts which are totally opposed to the radical
individualism that lies in the core of anarcho-capitalism.

The
fight between them looks unequal because anarcho-capitalism is
actually the final stage of neoliberalism, which paves the way by all
means. Also, the conditions that have been formed for decades with
the massive urbanization and creation of gigantic urban centers as
well as the culture of extreme consumerism, are key facts in favor of
anarcho-capitalism and constitute a major obstacle to the
dissemination and development of alternative forms of social
organization.

In
Greece of economic crisis, one can see clearly how unequal is this
battle, as the financial elites have imposed legislative decisions
that led in sweeping changes to labor rights and welfare state the
last three years, affecting these sectors in great extent. On the
contrary, the only attempt of a legislative decision in favor of
undertaking and self-managing a bankrupt company from employees, was
not even brought to parliament for voting.

Thus,
SYRIZA's* initiative to pass a specific law that would allow the
organization and management of the bankrupted chemical industry BIOME
by the workers, stays so far at the fringe, and this is not a
surprise because it would create a precedent and could lead to a
domino effect of similar actions by employees in other bankrupt
companies in the private sector, something which would be highly
destructive for the plans of neoliberal dictatorship and
anarcho-capitalism as its final stage.

Self-management
or anarcho-capitalism?

While,
therefore, neoliberalism dissolves the nation-state and although it
seems that nothing can stop its final form which is
anarcho-capitalism, a rival ideology begins to form (quite slowly
though), which necessarily adjusted to the absence of the
state-protector and takes form through self-management communities.
Self-management communities can easily adjusted to the new facts
because their ideological matrix contains as main feature the absence
of state and government intervention too. So, we may indeed
experiencing a shift of the old ideological lines to another
direction.

Although
it would be somewhat naive one to try to identify the origin of the
new rival ideologies, many believe that anarcho-capitalism contains
some theoretical ideas of early anarchists or radical individualists
like Stirner and Kierkegaard. Self-management communities, on the
other hand, lead to other theorists of anarchism, such as Godwin,
Proudhon and Bakunin, who do not reject concepts like collectivism.

Anarcho-capitalism,
however, actually borrows the concept of anarchy and uses it
misleading. Thus, although anarcho-capitalism requires the state
absence, does not mean that will be free from a global power core
controlled by the big capital, which, in a seemingly fully
deregulated market will continue to determine the rules of the game
to its advantage, free from any "embarrassing" state
intervention and therefore more powerful than ever. Thus, the concept
of anarcho-capitalism is actually spurious because gives the illusion
of complete freedom of individual activity, which however, only
serves the interests of a global economic elite.

Self-management
communities instead, do not favor a global centralized control of any
kind because they can operate locally and autonomously, merely having
some common values and common characteristics. The locality of the
self-management communities is a great advantage as there are no
large energy requirements due to scale, but also due to a culture of
degrowth and restrictions on basic needs at an early stage. Thus,
self-management communities are possible even for the poorest
societies.

Thus,
the logic of self-management communities is based on a more balanced
relationship with the environment, unlike anarcho-capitalism, which
is based on unrestrained growth and the continuous downgrade of the
natural environment, which ultimately ends in an accelerated
environmental destruction.

Another
big difference is that the state presence in the case of
self-management communities is not an obstacle, but rather, even in
limited form under certain conditions, a facilitator in their
evolution, and also is possible to support them actively and directly
with some additional functions. Such examples can be found in
Venezuela of Chavez, but even in Europe, where before economic crisis
hit the green development, there were proposals at European level,
like for example microgrids, i.e. small and flexible electricity
distribution networks, ideal for renewable energy applications and
communities of small populations.

Self-management
communities have a flexibility also concerning their form. They can
be formed by groups of workers at workplaces (BIOME, ERT), or by
people in small-scale residential areas (towns, villages). The
experiment of ERT in Greece
(http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013_06_01_archive.html)
showed that the self-management is possible.

The
big question is whether self-management communities will become a
fact for the vast majority of people in order to prevent the
nightmarish final victory of anarcho-capitalism. It is certain that
neoliberal dictatorship will do everything to prevent the expansion
of a wider movement of self-management, which may eventually lead to
an effort of immediate and practical application of the new rival
ideologies, which will lead in turn, in the relatively near future,
in a major class warfare.